Live at the Hollywood Palladium (December 15, 1988) [Live]

Keith Richards | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 18, 2007)
• Original Release Date: December 10, 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Virgin Records
• ASIN: B000000WID
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,211 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #100 in Music > Rock > Rock Guitarists

Track Listings

1. Take It So Hard

2. How I Wish

3. I Could Have Stood You Up

4. Too Rude

5. Make No Mistake

6. Time Is On My Side

7. Big Enough

8. Whip It Up

9. Locked Away

10. Struggle

11. Happy

12. Connection

13. Rockawhile

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Human Riff, August 11, 2003

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Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at the Hollywood Palladium (December 15, 1988) (Audio CD)

Dubbed "the Human Riff" and widely hailed as perhaps the greatest rhythm guitarist in the history of rock n' roll, Keith Richards often plays in open-chord blues tunings, frustrating those who try to copying him with his unique five-string setup.

On this raw, ragged live album, he is backed by his session drummer Steve Jordan, who keeps a good groove going but apparently has all the imagination of a turnip. He is Richards' songwriting partner, though, and that must count for something.

Excellent second guitarist Robert "Waddy" Wachtel is here as well, as is bassist Charley Drayton, keyboardist Ivan Neville (who plays some great blues-and-boogie piano), and a long-time Stones-ally, saxist Bobby Keys.

Keith Richards and the Winos tear through nine songs from Keith's first solo album, "Talk Is Cheap", as well as a few Stones-songs, including a harder-rocking rendition of "Connection" from "Between The Buttons". Richards' guitar playing is smouldering, he lays down a superb groove all along, and his rough, hoarse vocals are pure rock n' roll!

Highlights include a swinging, sax-enhanced "Too Rude", the #3 single off "Talk Is Cheap", "Take It So Hard", the magnificent, down and dirty blues, "Make No Mistake", Richards' signature tune "Happy", the smoky slow "Locked Away", and the tough, muscular riff-rockers "I Could Have Stood You Up" and "How I Wish". Everything is played with grit and determination, and "Live at the Hollywood Palladium" has that organic feel which the Rolling Stones have had trouble capturing since the mid-70s.

Keith Richards has the ability to rock like very few others, and he shows that on this fine live album. It's not excactly polished, but what do you expect from a live recording of Keith Richards and a band dubbed "the X-Pensive Winos"?

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This Rolling Stone can rock on his own., May 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Live at the Hollywood Palladium (December 15, 1988) (Audio CD)

Regardless of what the critics might think, for fans of the Rolling Stones early, more blues-influenced days, this albums brings home the goods. From the first notes played by Keith's Stereocaster on "Take It So Hard" to the Raggae-inspired grooves of "Too Rude" to the straight-up Rock 'N' Roll of "Whip It Up," this CD showcases Richards' versatility and strength. His rough and edgy voice pull the listener into the smoke-filled clubs and juke joints that inspired Keith to pick up his guitar in the first place. This Glimmer Twin certainly knows how to sparkle on his own.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Talk is Cheap, August 24, 2004

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MidWest Phil "Midwest Phil" (Northfield, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at the Hollywood Palladium (December 15, 1988) (Audio CD)

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This live CD, recorded during the FABULOUS "Talk is Cheap" tour, primarily represents a second recording of the studio album (and a few great extras) with very appreciative crowd noise sandwiched between the songs. Nothing wrong with that, because these are songs that are MEANT to be played live - but the energy and production values of the original studio "Talk is Cheap" album is so extraordinary, this live album primarily speaks to Keith completists. I once read Keith questioned releasing this live album, but there were sooooooooo many bootlegs out of the winos live preformances, he felt his fans deserved a definitive version.